2009/10/5 William A. Rowe, Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net>: > David Balažic wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Just checking here if this is a know bug. >> >> I downloaded >> http://www.apache.si/httpd/binaries/win32/apache_2.2.13-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi >> on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system, started it, set some more or less >> normal options ( >> set hostname, domain and email, the used the typical/default settings). >> During that I removed an external drive (F:). Then when I clicked >> Finish in the wizard, >> I immediatelly got an error dialog about F: no being a valid drive. >> After OKing it, I could just >> close the installer. There was nothing installed. >> >> As I was installing onto C:\... I don't see why the absence of F: >> should break the installation. >> >> Note: I also have Eset NOD32 v4.0 running. > > You are at the mercy of the Microsoft Installer here, I suspect the same > behavior would > occur if you installed most any package. This falls into that strange > category where > Microsoft insists you close your programs before running an installer. > > And yes, anti-spy/spam/viralware all tend to interfere with installations, > but they should > not affect the apache installer in any particular manner.
Some more details: - I chose the "install for this user only" option - I reproduced it The exact error message is : Error 1327.Invalid Drive: F:\ After that I cleaned up the disk letters and installed apache without problems. Regards, David --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
